Re:Order your rapid tests from the USPS (US only)
by thescriptkiddie on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @01:05PM
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The rapid tests have a very high false negative rate regardless of variant, but a very low false positive rate. They should not be trusted as proof that you do not have COVID, only as proof that you do have it.
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Re:Order your rapid tests from the USPS (US only)
by nomel on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @02:31PM
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For evidence that completely supports this downvoted comment, this is from the documentation of the self-test kit that I have:
> QuickVue At-Home OTC COVID-19 Test correctly identified 83.5% of positive specimens and 99.2% of negative specimens.
Re:Order your rapid tests from the USPS (US only)
by thebigman433 on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @01:11PM
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I think you can generally reasonably be sure that you dont have it if you test negative on a rapid test, especially if you take multiple. The accuracy of the better ones (which is what we're getting in the US) looks to be about 80% for people who do have the virus. To me, you can trust that to say you dont have covid, especially if youre vaccinated.